1) Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956? a) Fannie Lou Hammer b) Rosa Parks c) Sojourner Truth d) Harriet Tubman 2) What was Malcolm X's birth name? a) Malcolm Poole b) Frederick Williams c) Malcolm Little  d) Derrick Greenspan 3) Who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and was known as the '1st Lady of the Civil Rights Movement'? a) Fannie Lou Hammer b) Rosa Parks c) Sojourner Truth d) Harriet Tubman 4) Who founded PUSH? a) Rev. Jesse Jackson b) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. c) Louis Armstrong   d) Malcolm X 5) Who was the first black woman to speak out publicly against slavery? a) Fannie Lou Hammer b) Rosa Parks c) Sojourner Truth d) Harriet Tubman 6) President Regan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984. a) Muhammad Ali b) Satchel Paige c) Arthur Ashe d) Jackie Robinson 7) Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad? a) Fannie Lou Hammer b) Rosa Parks c) Sojourner Truth d) Harriet Tubman 8) Who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany? a) Jackie Robinson b) Labron James c) Wilma Rudolph d) Jesse Owens 9) In 1928, he set new high school records in the high jump and long jump. a) Mack Robinson b) Jesse Owens c) Michael Johnson d) Carl Lewis 10) She became the head of a spy network in 1863. a) Fannie Lou Hammer b) Rosa Parks c) Sojourner Truth d) Harriet Tubman 11) Whose autobiography is entitled "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"? a) Oprah Winfrey b) Mya Angelou c) Ruby Bridges d) Harriet Tubman 12) Was the first black American baseball player to play in the Major League a) Jackie Robinson b) Willie Mayes c) Hank Aaron d) Satchel Paige 13) Was the first black American student to attend an all-white school in the southern United States a) Oprah Winfrey b) Mya Angelou c) Ruby Bridges d) Harriet Tubman 14) Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman? a) Nyeeam Hudson b) Emmet Till c) Michael Jackson d) Medgar Evers 15) Was the 1st woman to join the NAACP, working as their secretary a) Shirley Chisholm b) Rosa Parks c) Barbara Jordan d) Harriet Tubman

Black History Quiz # 3 - (Feb. 19, 2021)

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